Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 18:24:52 +0000 (UTC) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r46535 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201504141824.t3EIOq1j023381@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: bjk Date: Tue Apr 14 18:24:51 2015 New Revision: 46535 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46535 Log: Add FreeBSD Foundation report Approved by: hrs (mentor, implicit) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Tue Apr 14 18:14:06 2015 (r46534) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml Tue Apr 14 18:24:51 2015 (r46535) @@ -798,4 +798,110 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre> </help> </project> + <project cat='misc'> + <title>The &os; Foundation</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Deb</given> + <common>Goodkin</common> + </name> + <email>deb@FreeBSDFoundation.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/">Foundation website</url> + <url href="http://freebsdjournal.com/">&os; Journal</url> + <url href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2015_03_11-the_pcbsd_tour_ii">BSDNow PC-BSD Tour</url> + <url href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2015_02_25-from_the_foundation_2">BSDNow "From the Foundation"</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>The Foundation turned 15 on March 15th! We kicked off + our anniversary celebration by launching a spring fundraising + campaign, to bring in 500 new community investors. In + conjunction with our anniversary, BSDNow interviewed Justin + Gibbs about our history and plans for the future as part of + the PC-BSD tour. BSDNow also interviewed Ed Maste about &os; + projects and processes in a "From the Foundation" episode.</p> + + <p>We were a Platinum Sponsor of AsiaBSDCon and had five team + members attend the conference. Kirk McKusick taught a two-day + &os; kernel tutorial and gave a talk on Journaled Soft + Updates and George Neville-Neil gave a talk on network + performance in &os;; George also taught a two day tutorial + (A Look Inside FreeBSD with DTrace). This is from ongoing work + with Robert Watson in support of both academic and + practitioner educational material for &os;. Dru gave a talk + on Advanced OpenSource Storage with FreeNAS 9.3, and Ed Maste + gave a talk on the LLDB Debugger in FreeBSD.</p> + + <p>We became a Platinum Sponsor for BSDCan, and have approved six + travel grants to &os; contributors. We also sponsored + Michael Dexter to attend SCALE so he could give a talk on + virtualization.</p> + + <p>In addition to the above conferences, we helped promote &os; + at the following conferences:</p> + + <ul> + <li><a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast15">USENIX + FAST '15</a></li> + <li><a href="https://fosdem.org/2015/">FOSDEM</a></li>; + <li><a href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/13x/">SCALE</a></li>; + </ul> + + <p>We received and published &os; testimonials from Xinuos, + Netgate, and Tarsnap.</p> + + <p>We launched the "From the Trenches" series to provide stories + from &os; contributors on what they are doing with &os;. + Glen Barber wrote an article called ZFS and How to Make a Foot + Cannon. Glen also investigated a deadlock issue when rebooting + after upgrades (PR 195458), and he released weekly 11-CURRENT and + 10-STABLE snapshot builds.</p> + + <p>The &os; Journal now has over 8300 subscribers and has a 98% + renewal rate. We are now publishing a few free <a + href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/journal/articles">&os; + Journal articles</a>. We also created landing pages for each + Journal issue for easier promotion.</p> + + <p>We started work on the Ottawa Vendor and Developer Summits and + another one that has not yet been officially announced on the East + Coast in the fall.</p> + + <p>Our development staff and project grant recipients were + responsible for a large number of feature improvements and bug + fixes over this past quarter. We have eight individual reports + in this quarterly update for Foundation-sponsored projects + that demonstrate a number of different ways the Foundation + supports the &os; project.</p> + + <p>One project is the subject of a research master's + project at Swinburne University in Melbourne: the Multipath + TCP (MPTCP) implementation for &os;. The PCIe hot plug + project is an individual project grant. The FreeBSD/arm64 + project represents a collaborative development effort, where + the Foundation facilitates a broader project with multiple + participants.</p> + + <p>There are also a number of projects undertaken directly by + Foundation staff. In this quarterly report we have several + reports in this category: Secure Boot, the autofs-based + automount daemon, dynamically loadable libthr, Intel DMA + remapping, migration to the ELF Tool Chain project tools.</p> + + <p>Additionally, one of the benefits of having long-term + permanent staff is the ability to continue to maintain + projects and contribute improvements beyond a fixed timeline. + Over the last quarter Foundation staff contributed + improvements to the UEFI boot process, vt(4) system console, + in-kernel iSCSI stack, the virtual memory subsystem, and many + others.</p> + </body> + </project> + </report>
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